Isabel Schayani – Project Leader, WDRforyou; Editor, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR); John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2017, CES, Harvard University

Moderated by Georg Diez – Reporter and Columnist, Politics and Culture, Der Spiegel; 2016-2017 Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University

Benjamin Braun – Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

Eva Marlene Hausteiner – Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher in Political Theory, University of Bonn; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

Hanna Lierse – Postdoctoral Fellow, Jacobs University Bremen; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

Eva Schliephake – Assistant Professor, Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics, University of Bonn; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

Thomas Weber – Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Aberdeen; Director, Center for Global Security and Governance, University of Aberdeen

Moderated by Alexander Görlach – Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European Magazine, The European; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Berggruen Institute

Welcome Remarks by Marc Redlich – Director, Boston Warburg Chapter, American Council on Germany

Wolfgang Streeck – Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society

Kader Konuk – Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Duisburg-Essen

Bernd Nicolai – Professor of History of Architecture and Conservation, Institute of Art History, University of Bern

Moderated by Sibel Bozdoğan – Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Professor of Architecture, Kadir Has University

Esra Akcan – Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University

Bilgin Ayata – Assistant Professor of Political Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel

Phillipp Misselwitz – Chair of Habitat Unit, Institute for Architecture Technical University, Berlin

Moderated by Berna Turam – Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Yascha Mounk – Associate Professor of Practice, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies; Lecturer in the Government Department, Harvard University; senior Carnegie Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Mary Elise Sarotte – Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Associate, CES, Harvard University

Stephen Szabo – Executive Director, Transatlantic Academy

Heidi Tworek – Assistant Professor of International History, University of British Columbia; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University